The Life After Tears - Mark Nepo

[Larry Robinson]

The Life After Tears

in the life before tears, 
there are endless plans
and we would avoid the difficult
feelings at all costs, as if grief,
pain, and loss are canyons we’ll
never be able to climb out of.

But, then, one day, while
not looking, someone dear
dies, or dream breaks like
a plate, or our world, as
we’ve known it, is blown
apart.

Then, we discover that
falling in the canyon is
our initiation, and
the river at the bottom
is the only water that
Will keep us alive.

I wish it were different.
But the reward for being
hollowed out is that the
song then sings us.

	 - Mark Nepo

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